Originally published at: Update 8.7 Patch Notes – Gems of War
We have reworked the quest path that takes you from creating a hero to starting Broken Spire. They are now their own storyline called Dragon’s Pursuit. We have rewritten the conversations, reworked the battles, reviewed the quest rewards, and added 3 new quests to the storyline. After creating a Hero, players are taken directly to…
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Small note from me: As we have recently had an update every month, the window to action QoLs and client update bug fixes from a current update, is really tiny or sometimes is missed before that next update already needs to be submitted.
This is why currently you will see some things be implemented in the 2nd or 3rd next update
Also, why Sokun & I included an update cadence question in the Community Survey!
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We appreciate having constant updates to the game. You guys want to make the game more enjoyable for newer players, and that’s what has been the focus for quite some time. Little by little, things will get better (as long as pesky bugs don’t keep bothering us).
And thank you for removing guild war permissions from rank 3 members. That caused a lot of chaos when we had to demote everyone because too many people kept changing things and being confused.
After all the data from the community survey is looked at, I am sure that you guys will have a clear direction on what to focus on for future updates. I am trying not to comment on the forums as much because the wheels already seem to be in motion without my input anymore.
Fun fact: I helped Team Cherry with testing for bugs and performance about a year ago for Silksong and am glad that their dream will finally be realized soon. Their studio is in Melbourne too, so something right must be going on down under! Maybe it’s the kangaroos…
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As a veteran player, I kind of wish we were allowed to repeat these early-game reworks just to see firsthand what they are even like now. Sure, the in-game rewards for new players are basically moot to older players, but still.
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Could always make a new account if you wanted!
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Thank you for the update. Please look at the list of Improvement requested earlier but unfortunately little done.
Thank you
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The update option has not shown up yet for me on iOS (iPad)
Is it supposed to be live yet ?
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Ok - thanks for that TheldleOne 
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Any reason the patch notes can’t contain expected release date any more, Jeto? Seems bad to have that info in another thread but not this one.
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Personally, I’d be happy to have less frequent content drops in exchange for more QoL updates. I think it would make the game better overall. Thanks for looking into this option as a possibility.
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Calm down!..it isn’t an emergency…yet.
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2.84GB for this update. Man, I hope it includes some milk and cookies too.
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A little less than a GB on iOS. Wonder what the difference is. 
Jeto I appreciate you a lot but this morning when I logged in, I hated your entire DEV team, despite your statements in another post, your team did nothing at all to resolve the matchmaking, if no one knows how to resolve it at your place, be honest and say so, this will prevent us from registering at GW next time. We are in the top 40 and as this has already happened to us on other GW, we are facing the world number two guild. Do you find this normal??? Do you find this funny??? Find this amusing for us??? We lost in advance like the other times, thank you, for me and my players, your team has spoiled our fun on this Event, and therefore 0 chances of gold marks tomorrow morning at the reset, it’s desperate.
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It was even less fun for number #1 facing lower competition no fun just free gold marks
Bringing back the brackets is the only fix there was a reason same 8 guilds always stayed in the first bracket
Reason they gave for removing them was it took to long for new guilds to move up the ranks yet it will take over a year for the soulforge to completely rotate now 
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Indeed you are right, also zero pleasure for the 8 ultra competitive GW guilds of the old rank 1, the two guilds are therefore punished in this super scenario which is repeating itself for us, for the 3rd time. Let’s hope for a resolution with the 8.30 update 
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Are the 3 new achievements for matching Burning, Barrier, and Freeze gems tracking/unlocking for anyone on Xbox?
I went from the midway point for the Matching Heroic Gems campaign task on Silver to Gold while running a 4x Fire Spirt team for matching Burning Gems and it didn’t unlock and progress shows 0% on the achievement tracker. Didn’t even get any progress toward Barrier gems when playing PvP in Maraji Expanse.
The game shows that it updated on Xbox recently. Maybe i’ll uninstall it and reinstall to see if it fixes it.
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